On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 09:06:52PM -0500, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
> And, on the subject of a missing sleeve... Wasn't there a story - in 
> the Brothers Grimm collection - about a girl who had to make 12 shirts 
> for her brothers who'd been turned into ravens?

I remember one with swans...  And the girl had to make the shirts out of nettles
at night at a graveyard.  And there were additional gruesome effects, I think,
but I don't remember.  The fact that those used to be stories for children tells
you something about how life must have been then...

Weronika

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            Weronika Patena
        Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
    http://vole.stanford.edu/weronika

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